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weapon_d00d816 posted...

wah_wah_wah posted...

weapon_d00d816 posted...

This also describes American liberals, actually. The Republicans' and Democrats' social views have this sort of yin-yang thing going on with where they want authority and where they want freedom.

The operatives of both parties don't have what could accurately be described as liberals Neither the Republican Party or the Democratic Party have a hint of liberalism, and the only really care about power. The only part of the Democratic Party that I would even remotely describe as liberal is Bernie Sanders and his justice democrats, and he was predictably destroyed by the conservatives that pull the levers.

I was thinking more along the lines of Democrat voters than Democrat politicians. There's definitely a difference, which is one of the biggest issues in American politics IMO.

The operates and the politicians are conservative because the voters themselves are pretty conservative. Particularly partisan Democrat voters. Liberals will vote for Democrats only as the worst of two evils if they vote for them at all. They may look different than the conservative voters of the Republican Party, but that's only because different backgrounds are going to give you a different set of priorities to defend. A black conservative isn't going to want the same as a white conservative.